I Don't Actually Agree With Many Of The Things This Post Suggests I Agree With

Find and Replace: "homosexual(s)/gay(s)/straight(s)" with "African-American(s)/black(s)/white(s)"

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I’ll stand arm in arm with the African American crowd when it comes to demanding equality under the law. But forcing a private dating service to spend money to reconfigure its website and retool its matchmaking formula to accommodate African Americans isn’t a civil rights issue. It’s petulant and silly.

Ultimately, it’ll also be counterproductive. Because if feeds into the (usually, but not always incorrect) claim that the African American crowd is forcing its lifestyle onto others. I won’t go so far as to say, as some on the right have, that whites should sue to force black dating sites to set up separate sections for whites, because I don’t think black dating sites should have to stoop to this bullshit, either. Freedom of association means that when private parties choose to associate with one another, some people will under some circumstances be excluded. Deal with it.

It’s too bad eHarmony caved.